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Unless compelling evidence to the contrary is presented, I will remove
blockdevices as a concept from FreeBSD RSN.

In the future all devices will be character devices, and mounts will
happen using these as well.

Adequate compatibility code will be provided.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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